BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20180101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190220T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190220T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190104T030738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T030738Z
UID:49303-1550691000-1550696400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro in conversation with Elizabeth Rosner
DESCRIPTION:It was a simple test. Yet\, the course of her life changed forever. \nDani Shapiro\, the award-winning author of bestselling novels like Hourglass\, Devotion\, and more\, grappled with the self-shattering results of a simple DNA test. \nOn TLC and in heart-warming ads\, DNA testing is nothing more than a high-tech family tree for the digital age\, an over-the-counter science experiment to deepen our own personal understanding ourselves. But millions of Americans are finding a different experience. \nIn this intimate and heart-wrenching new memoir from one of the great writers of our time\, comes the true story of how Dani Shapiro discovered that her father was not truly her biological father. Her Jewish identity\, relationship to her family and to herself—they all underwent seismic change in a heartbeat. Upending a lifetime of secrets and untold stories\, this innocuous decision left Shapiro grappling with results no one could have ever prepared her for. Inheritance is a tour de force of what family truly means\, raw and emotionally realized. \nJoin us for a powerful and peerless evening\, as Dani opens this profound chapter of her life in conversation with fellow writer and family historian Elizabeth Rosner of Survivor Café. \nThese two stunning Jewish-American authors describe a selfhood built against the backdrop of history\, secrets\, and the often-unknown stories of those who came before us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro-in-conversation-with-elizabeth-rosner/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Shapiro-Rosner.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190221T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190221T203000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190104T030544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T030544Z
UID:49300-1550775600-1550781000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Story is the Thing
DESCRIPTION:“The universe is made of stories\, not of atoms.” -Muriel Rukeyser\nReading starts at 7:30 pm.\nLight refreshments and conversation at 7:00 pm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for our quarterly reading series\, Story is the Thing\, where stunning\, emerging voices can be heard alongside works from contemporary local masters. \nReading starts at 7:30 pm. Light refreshments and conversation at 7:00 pm. \nJeanne Althouse\nFlash fiction by Jeanne Althouse has appeared in numerous literary journals. Her most recent flash story collection\, Boys in the Bank\, published by Red Bird Chapbooks\, came out in November 2018. Her story “Big Lies” was a finalist in the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction contest and “Goran Holds his Breath” was nominated by Shenandoah for the Pushcart Prize. \nJamel Brinkley\nJamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories (Graywolf Press/A Public Space Books)\, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in fiction and recipient of the 2019 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. His writing has appeared\, or is forthcoming\, in The Best American Short Stories 2018\, A Public Space\, Ploughshares\, Gulf Coast\, The Threepenny Review\, Glimmer Train\, American Short Fiction\, Tin House\, and other places. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he’s currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. \nTsun Yuan Chen\nTsun Yuan Chen is a retired Head and Neck Surgeon\, born in Mainland China\, studied in Taiwan and Tokyo\, before arriving on these shores. He now divides his time between San Francisco\, Umbria and Provence with his life partner\, at home everywhere and nowhere\, making alienation a fine art of his life\, while maintaining an esprit from the East. \nAndrea Donderi\nAndrea Donderi grew up in Montreal and arrived in California via Toronto\, Chicago\, and Bloomington\, Indiana. She recently moved from a ramshackle backyard cottage on the peninsula to a house with chickens in Oakland. Andrea writes manuals for the guts of the Internet as well as essays and fiction. \nDavid Wystan Owen\nD. Wystan Owen is the author of Other People’s Love Affairs: Stories (Algonquin Books)\, an Amazon “Best Fiction & Literature of 2018” selection. His work has appeared in A Public Space\, LitHub\, The Threepenny Review\, The American Scholar\, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he now lives in Northern California where he serves as publisher of The Bare Life Review. \nKathy Wang\nKathy Wang grew up in Northern California and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-is-the-thing-3/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Story-is-the-Thing.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190226T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190226T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190104T030354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T030354Z
UID:49297-1551209400-1551214800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:The Hugo\, Nebula and Locus awards all agree on Charlie Jane Anders\, as do the devotees of her stunning 2016 achievement in literary science fiction\, All the Birds in the Sky. This author is a Kepler’s favorite! \nVivid\, charming\, quick-witted and ever-curious\, Anders’ professional work ranges from captivating short stories and novels to a spoken-word variety show of over ten years\, the lauded Writers With Drinks in San Francisco. Her vibrant speaking presence and dauntless intellectual curiosity have made this author an invaluable jewel in the Bay Area writing community for decades. She’s not only someone whose work you want to read\, but someone you want to meet. \nNow you have the chance! \nThe Literary Foundation is so excited to welcome Charlie Jane back to the stage for a talk and book-signing based around her latest novel\, The City in the Middle of the Night. This story is set in January\, a dying planet\, half lit by endless sun and half-plunged into icy night\, where our protagonist Sophie has recently been exiled to the darkness. Left for dead\, Sophie crafts unusual friendships which help her to survive night … and with the help of a ragtag supporting crew\, this student revolutionary is poised to change the world. \nAttend with a friend\, bask in the glow of a rising literary star\, and get your book signed!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Charlie-Jane-Anders.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190227T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190227T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190104T030205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T030205Z
UID:49294-1551295800-1551301200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Jill Abramson: This Is Now with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:One of the news media’s most qualified voices examines critical information battlegrounds: old media vs. new\, documented veracity vs. clickbait. \nJill Abramson follows four companies— The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, BuzzFeed\, and VICE— over a decade of disruption and radical adjustment. The two venerable newspapers wrestle the challenge of an aging readership; the two upstarts confront a ballooning but fickle audience of millennials. \nShe profiles the defenders of the legacy presses and the larger-than-life characters behind the new speed-driven media competitors. Those players include Jeff Bezos and Marty Baron (The Washington Post)\, Arthur Sulzberger and Dean Baquet (The New York Times)\, Jonah Peretti (BuzzFeed)\, and Shane Smith (VICE) as well as their reporters and anxious readers. \nWhat does all this portend for the discriminating news consumer? Join us for a This Is Now conversation featuring former Executive Editor of the New York Times and Harvard lecturer\, Jill Abramson.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jill-abramson-this-is-now-with-angie-coiro/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Jill-Abramson.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190228T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190228T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190129T220121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T220121Z
UID:49583-1551380400-1551387600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Nayomi Munaweera
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\nFebruary 28\, 2019\n7PM \nMLK Library\, Room 225/229\nSan José State University\nReading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by SJSU Professor of English Revathi Krishnaswamy – plus a book sale and signing. \nNayomi Munaweera’s debut novel\, Island of a Thousand Mirrors was long-listed for the Man Asia Literary Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It was short-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Northern California Book Prize. It won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for the Asian Region and was the Target Book Club selection for January 2016. Munaweera’s second novel\, What Lies Between Us was hailed as one of the most exciting literary releases of 2016 from venues ranging from Buzzfeed to Elle magazine. It won the Sri Lankan National Book Award for best English novel and the Godage Award. Munaweera teaches at Mills College and at the Ashland University low-residency MFA Program. She holds writing workshops in Sri Lanka through a program called Write to Reconcile in which she co-teaches with legendary writer\, Shyam Selvadurai. Their aim is to use writing as a tool of reconciliation and healing for survivors of the civil war in that nation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nayomi-munaweera/
LOCATION:SJSU MLK Library\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Nayomi_Munaweera.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190303T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190303T120000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190131T103930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T103930Z
UID:49838-1551610800-1551614400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Story Time with Peter H. Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:From the creator of the New York Times bestsellers The Word Collector and I Am Human comes an empowering story about finding your voice and using it to make the world a better place. In Say Something! beloved artist and author Peter H. Reynolds explores the many ways that a single voice can make a difference. Each of us\, each and every day\, have the chance to say something: with our actions\, our words\, and our voices. \n The world needs your voice.\nIf you have a brilliant idea… say something!\nIf you see an injustice… say something! \nPerfect for kid activists everywhere\, Reynolds reminds readers of the undeniable importance and power of their voices. There are so many ways to tell the world who you are\, what you are thinking\, and how you’ll make it better. The time is now: Say Something! \nPeter H. Reynolds is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of many books for children\, including The Dot\, Ish\, Happy Dreamer\, The Word Collector\, and I Am Human. His books have been translated into over twenty-five languages around the globe and are celebrated worldwide. In 1996\, he founded FableVision with his brother\, Paul\, as a social change agency to help create “stories that matter\, stories that move.” \nSay Something! is a perfect way to start a conversation about how kids can make a difference in their world. Join us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-time-with-peter-h-reynolds/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/PeterReynolds3.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190304T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190304T203000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190131T104040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T104040Z
UID:49841-1551727800-1551731400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Guy Kawasaki
DESCRIPTION:A veritable icon of Silicon Valley\, Kawasaki is the author of 14 books\, including staples in the entrepreneur’s library like The Art of the Start. After working with some of the biggest tech companies in the world\, including a stint at Apple in the 1980s\, this guru of guerilla marketing went on to become the poster of reinvention\, solo-prenuership\, and a champion of self-branding. Today\, he’s a chief evangelist for Canva\, an online graphic-design tool\, a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz\, and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. \nIn his most revealing book yet\, Guy shares personal stories from his childhood in Hawaii\, his education at Stanford and UCLA\, the ups and downs of working for Steve Jobs\, and taking up surfing at 60 — proving that you are never too old to learn something new. \nWise Guy is an utterly original and profoundly intimate look at the power of self-reflection. Always the clear-eyed mentor\, Guy invites us all to find the deeper truth in the smallest moments of our life. Join one of Silicon Valley’s biggest stars as he returns to Kepler’s to share the pivotal lessons he’s learned in his 30+ years in the valley — you might just learn a thing or two about surfing along the way!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/guy-kawasaki/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Kawasaki.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190305T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190305T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190131T110953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T110953Z
UID:49862-1551812400-1551819600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Guy Kawasaki\, Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life
DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life\, and the lessons we can draw from them\, in his new book\, Wise Guy. \nGuy Kawasaki has been a fixture in the tech world since he was part of Apple’s original Macintosh team in the 1980s. He’s widely respected as a source of wisdom about entrepreneurship\, venture capital\, marketing\, and business evangelism\, which he’s shared in bestselling books such as The Art of the Start and Enchantment. But before all that\, he was just a middle-class kid in Hawaii\, a grandson of Japanese immigrants\, who loved football and got a C+ in 9th grade English. \nWise Guy\, his most personal book\, is about his surprising journey. It’s not a traditional memoir but a series of vignettes. He toyed with calling it Miso Soup for the Soul\, because these stories (like those in the Chicken Soupseries) reflect a wide range of experiences that have enlightened and inspired him. \nFor instance\, you’ll follow Kawasaki as he . . . \n* Gets his first real job in the jewelry business–which turned out to be surprisingly useful training for the tech world. \n* Disparages one of Apple’s potential partners in front of that company’s CEO\, at the sneaky instigation of Steve Jobs. \n* Blows up his Apple career with a single sentence\, after Jobs withholds a pre-release copy of the Think Different ad campaign: “That’s okay\, Steve\, I don’t trust you either.” \n* Reevaluates his self-importance after being mistaken for Jackie Chan by four young women. \n* Takes up surfing at 62–which teaches him that you can discover a new passion at any age\, but younger is easier! \nKawasaki covers everything from moral values to business skills to parenting. As he writes\, “I hope my stories help you live a more joyous\, productive\, and meaningful life. If Wise Guy succeeds at this\, then that’s the best story of all.” \n\nGuy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist Canva\, an online graphic-design tool. He’s also a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He was previously the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. His 14 books include The Art of the Start\, Enchantment\, Selling the Dream\, and The Art of Social Media. He has a BA from Stanford and an MBA from UCLA\, as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College. He and his wife\, Beth\, have four children. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 3rd.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/guy-kawasaki-wise-guy-lessons-from-a-life/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/kawasaki-wise-guy-750-copy.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190307T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190307T203000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190227T004019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T004019Z
UID:50084-1551985200-1551990600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:An Evening with Author Nathan Szajnberg
DESCRIPTION:Author Nathan Szajnberg will discuss his work on three father-son relationships as told by classic texts. He examines their dynamics and underpinnings\, as well as their points of failure. His fourth example\, the relationship between Jacob and Joseph\, illustrates architecture for a sustainable future. Szajnberg highlights where this father-son relationship endures while others fail. The talk is backed with research and investigation that culminated in a comprehensive book sure to leave the reader with an expanded world view. \n“Jacob and Joseph\, Judaism’s Architects and Birth of the Ego Ideal” is about a father and son story–Jacob and Joseph–that is radically different and healthier than the three major father-son myths in Western literature: Abraham/Isaac; Laius/Oedipus and God/Christ. \nThe book demonstrates that the Jacob/Joseph relationship provided the familial infrastructure for Judaism. It also discovers the first description of a psychic structure–the Ego Ideal–found in Joseph\, that explains his success and provides the fundamental ingredient for Jewish endurance. We will follow the story with attention to the poetry of the text and the liveliness of the characters’ interactions including Joseph’s breaking into tears six times\, the first overt tears shed by a Biblical forefather (or mother). \nDr. Szajnberg was born in a German DP camp and grew up in upstate New York. He studied at the University of Chicago College and Medical School\, then in residencies in pediatrics\, general psychiatry and child/adolescent psychiatry. He’s received two NIMH awards (adolescence and infancy) and was the Ticho lecturer in 2012. \nNathan was the Sigmund Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University and Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis (2005-16) when he began writing this study of father-son relationships. This is his sixth book. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and three sons. \nBooks will be available for sale at the event. \n$18 General Public | $15 Members and J-Pass holders | $5 Students with ID. \nPresented by The Oshman Family JCC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-author-nathan-szajnberg/
LOCATION:Oshman Family JCC\, Freidenrich Conference Center\, Room F-401\, 3921 Fabian Way\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Oshman Family JCC":MAILTO:info@paloaltojcc.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190307T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190307T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190129T220355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T220355Z
UID:49586-1551985200-1551992400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Steinbeck Fellows Alumni Night
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\nMarch 7\, 2019\n7PM \nMLK Library\nSteinbeck Center\, Room 590                                                                                                             San José State University \nReading followed by an audience Q&A\, plus a book sale and signing. \nJoin the CLA and the Steinbeck Center to welcome back former Steinbeck Fellows R.O. Kwon\, Kirstin Chen\, and Vanessa Hua as they read from their newest works. \n \nR.O. Kwon‘s first novel\, The Incendiaries\, was released by Riverhead in July of 2018. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Vice\, BuzzFeed\, Noon\, Time\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she’s mostly lived in the United States. \n  \n  \n  \n \nKirstin Chen’s new novel\, Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A\, March 2018)\, has been named a Most Anticipated Upcoming Book by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle\, among others. She is also the author of Soy Sauce for Beginners. She was the fall 2017 NTU-NAC National Writer in Residence in Singapore\, and has received awards from the Steinbeck Fellows Program\, Sewanee\, Hedgebrook\, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Born and raised in Singapore\, she currently resides in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n  \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities. For two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and fiction\, about Asia and the Asian diaspora. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. A River of Stars is Vanessa Hua’s first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steinbeck-fellows-alumni-night/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Steinbeck-Fellows.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190307T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190307T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190131T111100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T111100Z
UID:49865-1551985200-1551992400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Dana Frank\, The Long Honduran Night
DESCRIPTION:Professor Dana Frank will join us to discuss and sign copies of her new book\, The Long Honduran Night—a story of resistance\, repression\, and U.S. policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup. \nThis powerful narrative recounts the dramatic years in Honduras following the June 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya\, told in part through first-person experiences\, layered into deeper political analysis. It weaves together two broad pictures: first\, the repressive regime that was launched with the coup\, and the ways in which U.S. policy has continued to support that regime; and second\, the brave and evolving Honduran resistance movement\, with aid from a new solidarity movement in the United States. \nAlthough it is full of terrible things\, this is not a horror story: the book directly counters mainstream media coverage that portrays Honduras as a pit of unrelenting awfulness\, in which powerless people sob in the face of unexplained violence. Rather\, it’s about sobering challenges with roots in political processes\, and the inspiring collective strength with which people face them. \n\nDana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005; repr. Haymarket 2016); Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon\, 1999); Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing\, Gender\, and the Seattle Labor Movement\, 1919-1929 (Cambridge\, 1994); Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California’s Kitsch Monuments (City Lights\, 2007); and\, with Howard Zinn and Robin D. G. Kelley\, Three Strikes: Miners\, Musicians\, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon\, 2001). Her contribution to Three Strikes has been reprinted\, with a new introduction\, by Haymarket Books as Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store\, Win Big (2012). Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation\, New York Times\, Politico Magazine\, Foreign Affairs.com\, Foreign Policy.com\, Miami Herald\, Los Angeles Times\, The Baffler\, and many other publications\, and she has testified before both the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 5th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-frank-the-long-honduran-night/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Frank-Honduran-750-copy.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190309T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190309T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190131T104215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T104215Z
UID:49844-1552147200-1552150800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Big Ideas Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson\nWhat is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. \nBut today\, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly\, with sparkling wit\, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. \nWhile you wait for your morning coffee to brew\, for the bus\, the train\, or a plane to arrive\, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes\, from quarks to quantum mechanics\, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/big-ideas-reading-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/AstrophysicsforPeopleinaHurry.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190312T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190312T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190131T111213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T111213Z
UID:49868-1552419000-1552426200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for opening seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/poetry-santa-cruz-750-copy_1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190313T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190313T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190131T111326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T111326Z
UID:49871-1552503600-1552510800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Carolyn Burke\, Foursome
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Carolyn Burke for a discussion and signing of her new book\, Foursome\, a captivating\, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities\, passionate feelings\, and aesthetic ideals drew them together\, pulled them apart\, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz. \nNew York\, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz\, the most influential figure in early twentieth-century photography\, celebrates the success of his latest exhibition—the centerpiece\, a series of nude portraits of the young Georgia O’Keeffe\, soon to be his wife. It is a turning point for O’Keeffe\, poised to make her entrance into the art scene—and for Rebecca Salsbury\, the fiancée of Stieglitz’s protégé at the time\, Paul Strand. When Strand introduces Salsbury to Stieglitz and O’Keeffe\, it is the first moment of a bond between the two couples that will last more than a decade and reverberate throughout their lives. In the years that followed\, O’Keeffe and Stieglitz became the preeminent couple in American modern art\, spurring each other’s creativity. Observing their relationship led Salsbury to encourage new artistic possibilities for Strand and to rethink her own potential as an artist. In fact\, it was Salsbury\, the least known of the four\, who was the main thread that wove the two couples’ lives together. Carolyn Burke mines the correspondence of the foursome to reveal how each inspired\, provoked\, and unsettled the others while pursuing seminal modes of artistic innovation. The result is a surprising\, illuminating portrait of four extraordinary figures. \n“The lives of a quartet of some of the most influential painters and photographers of the early 20th century are chronicled in this intimate and exhaustively researched group biography. [Foursome] offers detailed insight into one of the most important periods in American art.” —Publishers Weekly \nCAROLYN BURKE is the author of No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf\, Lee Miller: A Life (finalist for the NBCC)\, and Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Born in Sydney\, Australia\, she now lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 11th. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-burke-foursome/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Burke_Foursome-copy-2.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190316T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190316T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190131T104550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T104550Z
UID:49850-1552748400-1552755600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Lisa Moore Ramee with Sabaa Tahir
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Lisa Moore Ramee’s highly anticipated\, funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel A Good Kind of Trouble\,  about friendship\, family\, and standing up for what’s right – a book that Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give) calls “full of heart and truth” \n“Ramée effectively portrays the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement and the difficulty of navigating complex social situations while conveying universal middle school questions about friendship\, first crushes\, and identity. Shay’s journey is an authentic and engaging political and personal awakening.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review)) \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. But in junior high\, it’s like all the rules have changed. Now she’s suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she’s not black enough. Wait\, what? Shay’s sister\, Hana\, is involved in Black Lives Matter\, but Shay doesn’t think that’s for her. After experiencing a powerful protest\, though\, Shay decides some rules are worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Shay is scared to do the wrong thing (and even more scared to do the right thing)\, but if she doesn’t face her fear\, she’ll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now that’s trouble\, for real. \nLisa will be in conversation with Sabaa Tahir\, author of An Ember in the Ashes\, A Torch Against the Night\, and A Reaper at the Gates. This is a book we are sure to keep talking about\, a book I am evangelizing for.  Come celebrate with us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-moore-ramee-with-sabaa-tahir/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/download.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190318T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190318T200000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190131T104658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T104658Z
UID:49853-1552935600-1552939200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Spanish Book Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Patria – Fernando Aramburu\nPlease note: the Spanish Book Group will not be meeting in February. \nEl dia en que ETA anuncia el abandono de las armas\, Bittori se dirige al cementerio para contarle a la tumba de su marido el Txato\, asesinado por los terroristas\, que ha decidido volver a la casa donde vivieron. Podra convivir con quienes la acosaron antes y despues del atentado que trastoco su vida y la de su familia? Podra saber quien fue el encapuchado que un dia lluvioso mato a su marido\, cuando volvia de su empresa de transportes? Por mas que llegue a escondidas\, la presencia de Bittori alterara la falsa tranquilidad del pueblo\, sobre todo de su vecina Miren\, amiga intima en otro tiempo\, y madre de Joxe Mari\, un terrorista encarcelado y sospechoso de los peores temores de Bittori. Que paso entre esas dos mujeres? Que ha envenenado la vida de sus hijos y sus maridos tan unidos en el pasado? \nCon sus desgarros disimulados y sus convicciones inquebrantables\, con sus heridas y sus valentias\, la historia incandescente de sus vidas antes y despues del crater que fue la muerte del Txato\, nos habla de la imposibilidad de olvidar y de la necesidad de perdon en una comunidad rota por el fanatismo politico. El retablo definitivo sobre mas de 30 anos de la vida en Euskadi bajo el terrorismo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-book-discussion-group-3/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/patria.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190319T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190319T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190131T111503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T111503Z
UID:49874-1553022000-1553029200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Lloyd Khan\, Driftwood Shacks
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY\, MARCH 19\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 17th. \n“I started building almost 50 years ago\, and have lived in a self-built home ever since. If I’d been able to buy a wonderful old good-feeling house\, I might have never started building. But it was always cheaper to build than to buy\, and by building myself\, I could design what I wanted and use materials I wanted to live with. I set off to learn the art of building in 1960. I liked the whole process immensely. Hammering nails. Framing — delineating space. Nailing down the sub-floor\, the roof decking. It’s a thrill when you first step on the floor you’ve just created. Ideally I’d have worked with a master carpenter long enough to learn the basics\, but there was never time. I learned from friends and books and by blundering my way into a process that required a certain amount of competence. My perspective was that of a novice\, a homeowner — rather than a pro. As I learned\, I felt that I could tell others how to build\, or at least get them started on the path to creating their own homes. Through the years I’ve personally gone from post and beam to geodesic domes to stud frame construction. It’s been a constant learning process\, and this has led me into investigating many methods of construction — I’m interested in them all. For five years\, the late ’60s to early ’70s\, I built geodesic domes. I got into being a publisher by producing Domebook One in 1970 and Domebook 2 in 1971. I then gave up on domes (as homes) and published our namesake Shelter in 1973. We’ve published books on a variety of subjects over the years\, and returned to our roots with Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter in 2004\, Builders of the Pacific Coast and The Barefoot Architect in 2008\, and Tiny Homes in 2012. Building is my favorite subject. Even in this day and age\, building a house with your own hands can save you a ton of money (I’ve never had a mortgage) and — if you follow it through — you can get what you want in a home.” -Lloyd Kahn
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lloyd-khan-driftwood-shacks/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/driftwood.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190319T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190319T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190227T005900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T005900Z
UID:50188-1553022000-1553029200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Paul Beatty
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY\nMarch 19\, 2019\n7PM \nHammer Theatre\n101 Paseo de San Antonio\nSan José\, CA \nReading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by Associate Professor of Justice Studies and Director of the Human Rights Program at SJSU\, William Armaline – plus a book sale and signing. \nNovelist Paul Beatty is among the funniest and most fearless writers in contemporary fiction. He has been called “one of the shrewdest cultural commentators\, and hilarious cutups\, of his generation” (Interview). In a voice both acerbic and expansive\, Beatty creates unforgettable characters and haunting settings that strike at the very heart of race\, sex\, and language in America. With his most recent novel\, The Sellout\, Beatty became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize. The bestselling novel was also awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and the John Dos Passos Prize and named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times\, Newsweek\, The Denver Post\, Kirkus\, and Publishers Weekly. In addition to The Sellout\, Beatty is the author of Slumberland\, Tuff\, The White Boy Shuffle\, and two volumes of poetry. He is also the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. Beatty is currently working on a new novel\, as well as an anthology of nonblack writers writing on blackness\, titled Negro Sunshine\, out in 2020. He speaks on fiction and social critique.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-beatty/
LOCATION:Hammer Theater Center\, 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CLA_HOME-Paul_Beatty-WOtext-1080x550.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190322T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190322T190000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190131T105000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T105000Z
UID:49856-1553277600-1553281200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:National Geographic Explorer Academy
DESCRIPTION:For science-loving\, world-exploring young adventurers… \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNational Geographic presents Explorer Academy with the help of actual National Geographic Explorer Erika Bergman — scientist\, submersible pilot\, and steamship engineer! \nErika will share her adventures and open up a world of wonder with this new book series that J.J. Abrams\, director and screenwriter of Star Wars: The Force Awakens\, and Lost\, calls “A fun\, exciting\, and action-packed ride that kids will love.” and LeVar Burton\, host of Reading Rainbow says “is sure to awaken readers’ inner adventurer and curiosity about the world around them! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou will get the chance to meet Bergman– a virtual reality engineer and an enthusiastic ocean explorer who received a National Geographic grant in 2013 for her “Classrooms Under the Sea” expedition to live stream video from submersibles. Erika will join author Trudi Trueit\, who has written more than 100 books for young readers. Trudi has been a TV news reporter and weather forecaster\, but knew her calling was in writing. \nCome find out about life as an explorer and about National Geographic’s buzzworthy newest series based on the research and adventures of National Geographic’s leading scientists\, photographers and journalists\, focusing on geography\, history\, space\, STEM\, exploration and world cultures. Steeped in fact and real-world investigation\, this series embodies National Geographic’s explorers and how they interact with the world. \nJoin the National Geographic adventure!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-geographic-explorer-academy/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/download.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190327T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190327T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190131T111628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T111628Z
UID:49877-1553713200-1553720400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Katy Butler\, The Art of Dying Well
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, MARCH 27\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updates\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins. Please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 25th\, 2018 if you have any ADA accommodation requests. \nIn The Art of Dying Well\, Katy Butler seeks to restore an element of the sacred to the process of dying\, and provides the tools to navigate a modern medical system that is inadequately designed to meet the needs of the elderly and patients managing prolonged illnesses. This crucial guide prepares readers for seven phases of late life\, from vigorous old age to the final breath. Filled with life-affirming and relatable anecdotes\, each chapter addresses a specific stage: Resilience\, Slowing Down\, Adaptation\, Awareness of Mortality\, House of Cards\, Preparing for a Good Death\, and Active Dying. \nThe author of the New York Times bestseller Knocking on Heaven’s Door\, Katy Butler’s articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, The Best American Science Writing\, and The Best American Essays. A finalist for a National Magazine Award\, she lives in Northern California. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Hospice of Santa Cruz County.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katy-butler-the-art-of-dying-well/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/dying-well.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190401T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190401T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190228T194255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T194334Z
UID:50500-1554145200-1554152400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Laurie Halse Anderson
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling\, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson for her new book\, SHOUT\, a memoir and call to action for the #MeToo era. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about\, and advocates for\, survivors of sexual assault. In 1999\, her groundbreaking\, award-winning novel Speak opened the door for a national dialogue about rape culture and consent. Now\, twenty years later\, she reveals her personal history as a rape survivor in a searing new poetic memoir\, SHOUT. \nIn free verse\, Anderson shares reflections\, rants\, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she’s never written about before. Searing and soul-searching\, devastating and triumphant\, Shout is a denouncement of our society’s failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp\, whether aloud\, online\, or only in their own hearts. \nPLEASE NOTE: This event is for mature audiences only. Children under 13 will not be admitted. \n★ “A captivating\, powerful read about clawing your way out of trauma\, reclaiming your body\, and undoing lifetimes of lessons in order to use your voice as the weapon it is. Fervent and deafening.”—Booklist\, starred review \nLaurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers\, teens\, and new adults. Combined\, her books have sold more than 8 million copies. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times. Two of her books\, Speak and Chains\, were National Book Award finalists\, and Chains was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal in the UK. Laurie was selected by the American Library Association for the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award and has been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. In addition to combating censorship\, Laurie regularly speaks about the need for diversity in publishing and is a member of RAINN’s National Leadership Council. \nPurchase of Shout is mandatory for entry to the signing line. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in Premier Event\, Youth
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-halse-anderson/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/lauriehalseanderson.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190401T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190401T203000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190228T194703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T194703Z
UID:50503-1554147000-1554150600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Clive Thompson on the Future of Coding
DESCRIPTION:A comprehensive cultural portrait that Kirkus recommends for fans of John Markoff and Ari Levy\, Clive Thompson offers smart\, funny\, necessary reporting with Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World. This tech journalist uncovers lesser-known origin stories within the field and outlines its future directions\, all while casting incisive light on ethical questions of coding (what we code for\, more humans do). Thompson further explores the shifting role of the profession into a blue-collar arena where labor and class distinctions impact tech-innovations and outcomes. Design-thinking\, new economic engines\, Kentucky coal miners being trained to code and teen feminist hacktivist sleepovers—Thompson covers it all. \nJoining Thompson in conversation to explore the shifting future of coding is Wired veteran and Atlantic staff writer Alexis Madrigal. \nDo you fully know the profession that fuels Silicon Valley? Maybe we know it less than we think—Thompson and Madrigal weigh whether it could be the overlooked driving force of seismic social change. \nThis special event will be hosted at HanaHaus\, the dynamic community coworking space in downtown Palo Alto. Seating opens at 7:00 pm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in Premier Event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clive-thompson-on-the-future-of-coding/
LOCATION:HanaHaus\, 456 University Ave\, PAlo Alto\, CA\, 94301
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/clive.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190402T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190402T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190228T000147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T000147Z
UID:50425-1554231600-1554238800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Laurie Halse Anderson\, SHOUT
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes New York Times bestselling\, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson for a discussion and signing of her new book\, SHOUT – a searing poetic memoir for the #MeToo era. This offsite event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz\, and will take place at Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on the UCSC campus. \nREGISTER NOW HERE \n \nLaurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about\, and advocates for\, survivors of sexual assault. In 1999\, her groundbreaking\, award-winning novel Speak opened the door for a national dialogue about rape culture and consent. Now\, twenty years later\, she reveals her personal history as a rape survivor in a searing poetic memoir\, SHOUT. \nIn free verse\, Anderson shares reflections\, rants\, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she’s never written about before. Searing and soul-searching\, devastating and triumphant\, SHOUT is a denouncement of our society’s failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp\, whether aloud\, online\, or only in their own hearts. \nIMPORTANT INFORMATION: \n·    This event is for mature audiences only; children under 13 will not be admitted. \n·    Attendees must purchase a copy of SHOUT from Bookshop Santa Cruz either in store or at the event to enter the signing line. \n\nLaurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers\, teens\, and new adults. Combined\, her books have sold more than 8 million copies. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times. Two of her books\, Speak and Chains\, were National Book Award finalists\, and Chainswas short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie medal. Laurie was selected by the American Library Association for the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award and has been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. \nIn addition to combating censorship\, Laurie regularly speaks about the need for diversity in publishing and is a member of RAINN’s National Leadership Council. She lives in Philadelphia\, where she enjoys cheesesteaks while she writes. Find out more about Laurie by following her on Twitter at @halseanderson\, Instagram at halseanderson\, Facebook at writerlady\, and Pinterest at halseanderson or by visiting her website.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-halse-anderson-shout/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Halse-Anderson-Shout-750-copy.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190403T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190403T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190228T201925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T201925Z
UID:50549-1554318000-1554325200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:MARGARET DUMAS at Books Inc. Palo Alto
DESCRIPTION:Local author Margaret Dumas shares the first book in her humorous mystery series\, Murder at the Palace: Movie Palace Mystery #1. \nWelcome to the Palace movie theater! Now Showing: Philandering husbands\, ghostly sidekicks\, and a murder or two. \nWhen Nora Paige’s movie-star husband leaves her for his latest co-star\, she flees Hollywood to take refuge in San Francisco at the Palace\, a historic movie theater that shows the classic films she loves. There she finds a band of misfit film buffs who care about movies (almost) as much as she does. \nShe also finds some shady financial dealings and the body of a murdered stranger. \nOh\, and then there’s Trixie\, the lively ghost of a 1930’s usherette who appears only to Nora and has a lot to catch up on. With the help of her new ghostly friend\, can Nora catch the killer before there’s another murder at the Palace? \n– – – – – – – – – – – – – \nMURDER AT THE PALACE by Margaret Dumas A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one\, you’ll probably like them all. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 3\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n74 Town & Country Village\n\nPalo Alto\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-dumas-at-books-inc-palo-alto/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Margaret-Dumas-Books-Inc-Palo-Alto.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190403T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190403T203000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190228T194938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T194938Z
UID:50507-1554319800-1554323400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:A star at the heart of our literary constellations for decades\, from the bestselling A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius to McSweeney’s\, Dave Eggers returns to Kepler’s for the release of his latest fiction work\, The Parade. \nEggers is a staunch supporter of independent bookstores\, the founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia in San Francisco\, and a writer who consistently champions humanist ideals through empathetic literature. His characters– deeply realized\, flawed\, and driven by extremes– offer readers moral complexity alongside careful critique into modernity. Distinct\, meaningful\, enjoyable… Eggers is\, in short\, the perfect read\, noted for his postmodern and deeply sincere approach. \nJoin us on April 3rd to hear Dave Eggers speak about a powerful piece of new writing. \nThe Parade has already garnered positive reviews for its tight\, beautiful prose: a spare portrait of two very different men attempting to lay a roadway in an unnamed country long rent by civil war\, it uses specific characters in ambiguous yet familiar settings to highlight present-day concerns. For this style\, Kirkus describes Eggers as “the only living American writer for whom the term Hemingway-esque meaningfully applies.” \nHow often do we have the opportunity to hear the living embodiment of future western canon\, in person? \nAt least once\, on April 3rd at Kepler’s Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/eggers.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190404T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190404T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190228T000329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T000329Z
UID:50428-1554404400-1554411600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Meredith May\, The Honey Bus
DESCRIPTION:Meredith May\, The Honey Bus\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, APRIL 4\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nAn extraordinary story of a girl\, her grandfather and one of nature’s most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old\, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather\, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May\, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes\, in the secret world of bees. \nMay turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself\, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature.The bees became a guiding force in May’s life\, teaching her about family and community\, loyalty and survival and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. \nPart memoir\, part beekeeping odyssey\, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places\, and how a tiny\, little-understood insect could save a life. \nMeredith May spent sixteen years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, where her narrative reporting won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. She is coauthor of I\, Who Did Not Die and is a fifth-generation beekeeper. She lives in San Francisco\, where she keeps several hives in a community garden. \n“Filled with hope\, grace\, beauty\, and wisdom\, this book is like warm honey in the sunshine. It beautifully illustrates how nature – even honeybees – can teach and heal us\, if only we open our minds and hearts. It’s the kind of book that stays with you long after you’ve finished it–a rare treasure–and you don’t have to be a bee lover to be deeply moved by May’s wonderful story. I’m recommending it to everyone I know.” \n— Stacey O’Brien\, New York Times bestselling author of Wesley the Owl \n“Captivating and surprising…. If you’ve ever been stung by a bee you will instantly forget the venom and remember forever the sweetness and redemption bees offer in this extraordinary book.” \n— Sy Montgomery\, New York Times bestselling author of How To Be A Good Creature and The Soul of an Octopus \n“If Meredith May’s book was simply an ethology of bees I would devour every word; her prose is tender\, thoughtful and transporting. But The Honey Bus is so much more – a memoir of aching loneliness\, reckoning and redemption. Beautiful and brave.” \n— Domenica Ruta\, New York Times bestselling author of With or Without You: A Memoir \n“The wounded feminine\, the missing masculine\, healed by a relationship with honeybees. An innocent child’s hard won journey to adulthood–clear eyed\, often very funny\, and agonizingly compassionate. The Honey Bus is all these things and more–so if you’ve ever been a lonely child\, or want the world to become a kinder place\, here is your book.” \n— Laline Paull\, author of The Bees \n“The Honey Bus is a rare treat for true storytelling deeply rooted in science. Everyone will leave this book with much more knowledge about bees and humanity\, and the compassion that lives at the intersection of the two. [A] captivating coming of age family story.” \n— Noah Wilson-Rich\, Ph.D.\, author of The Bee: A Natural History \n“To read about Meredith May’s bee family and her human family is to garner heart strength. A true story in every sense.” \n— Maxine Hong Kingston\, bestselling author of The Woman Warrior \n  \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 2nd.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-may-the-honey-bus-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/honeybus-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190404T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190404T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190228T202059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T202059Z
UID:50552-1554404400-1554411600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:RHYS BOWEN at Books Inc. Palo Alto
DESCRIPTION:Award-winnig crime writer Rhys Bowen shares her heart-rending new novel\, The Victory Garden. \nAs the Great War continues to take its toll\, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more\, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. \nWhen he is sent back to the front\, Emily volunteers as a “land girl\,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. The journals inspire Emily\, and in the wake of devastating news\, they are her saving grace. Emily’s lover has not only died a hero but has left her terrified–and with child. Since no one knows that Emily was never married\, she adopts the charade of a war widow. \nAs Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs\, the found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster\, but may open a path to her destiny. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, April 4\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n74 Town & Country Village\n\nPalo Alto\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rhys-bowen-at-books-inc-palo-alto/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/rhys_0.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190404T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190404T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190228T202340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T202340Z
UID:50555-1554404400-1554411600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:LOLLY WINSTON at Books Inc. Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Lolly Winston—New York Times-bestselling author of Good Grief–discusses her poignant new novel\, Me for You. \nThe last thing Rudy expected was to wake up one Saturday morning\, a widow at fifty-four years old. Now\, ten months after the untimely death of his beloved wife\, he’s still not sure how to move on from the defining tragedy of his life–but his new job is helping. After being downsized from his finance position\, Rudy turned to his first love: the piano. Some people might be embarrassed to work as the piano player at Nordstrom\, but for Rudy\, there’s joy in bringing a little music into the world. And it doesn’t hurt that Sasha\, the Hungarian men’s watch clerk who is finally divorcing her no-good husband\, finds time to join him at the bench every now and then. \nJust when Rudy and Sasha’s relationship begins to deepen\, the police come to the store with an update about Rudy’s wife’s untimely death–a coworker has confessed to her murder–but Rudy’s actions are suspicious enough to warrant a second look at him\, too. With Sasha’s husband suddenly reappearing\, and Rudy’s daughter confronting her own marital problems\, suddenly life becomes more complicated than Rudy and Sasha could have imagined. \nWith Winston’s trademark humor and sweetness that will appeal to readers of Jennifer Weiner and Fredrik Backman but is uniquely her own\, Lolly Winston delivers a heartfelt and realistic portrait of loss and grief\, hope and forgiveness\, and two imperfect people coming together to create a perfect love story. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, April 4\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1875 S. Bascom Avenue\, Suite #600\n\nCampbell\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lolly-winston-at-books-inc-campbell/
LOCATION:Book Inc. Campbell\, 1875 S. Bascom Avenue\, Suite #600\, Campbell\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/lolly.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190404T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190404T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190228T195119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T195119Z
UID:50510-1554406200-1554411600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Kepler’s Literary Foundation for a book discussion with author Laila Lalami! From the celebrated Pulitzer Prize finalist who swept multiple book awards with The Moor’s Account comes this lyric\, fascinating new novel The Other Americans. Through nine separate narrators whose accounts effortlessly interweave\, Lalami unravels both the mystery of an immigrant’s sudden death and the quiet schisms that underlie American culture. \nThe novel opens with Nora\, a jazz composer\, who sips champagne with a friend on the same night that her father dies in an apparent hit-and-run near his home in California. Maryam\, Nora’s mother\, narrates a following chapter; a distant neighbor\, another; an undocumented witness\, a friend and immigrant\, and a detective all speak to the events leading up to and following Driss Guerroui’s death. These dueling narrative lines call out to secrets both within Nora’s family and throughout the town. \nThe Other Americans has already garnered extraordinary praise from Kirkus\, Publisher’s Weekly\, and talented writers of fiction like J.M. Coetzee and Viet Thanh Nguyen\, who gets it exactly right when he calls Laila Lalami “a writer of uncommon conviction and tremendous insight.” Don’t miss the opportunity to meet this glittering star in the literary pantheon at the height of her career. RSVP now for Lalami’s visit on April 4th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laila-lalami/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/LailaLalamicAprilRocha.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190406T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190406T120000
DTSTAMP:20260627T220059
CREATED:20190228T195304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T195304Z
UID:50513-1554548400-1554552000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Story Time with Chris Van Dusen
DESCRIPTION:A new book by Kate DiCamillo and Chris Van Dusen is a cause for celebration. And we WILL be celebrating when Chris Van Dusen\, one of our favorite picture book author/illustrators\, visits Kepler’s on April 6. \nEvery porcine wonder was once a piglet – discover Mercy Watson’s delightful origin story in A Piglet Named Mercy. an endearing picture-book prequel to the beloved New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Van Dusen is the author-illustrator of many books for young readers\, including The Circus Ship\, If I Built a House\, If I Built a Car\, Down to the Sea with Mr Magee and Hattie & Hudson\, and the illustrator of the Mercy Watson and Deckawoo Drive series. \nMr. Watson and Mrs. Watson live ordinary lives. Sometimes their lives feel a bit too ordinary. Sometimes they wish something different would happen. And one day it does\, when someone unpredictable finds her way to their front door. In a delightful origin story for the star of the Mercy Watson series\, a tiny piglet brings love (and chaos) to Deckawoo Drive — and the Watsons’ lives will never be the same. \nJoin us and celebrate the joy of a new arrival by a longtime favorite author.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-time-with-chris-van-dusen/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Dusen.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR